Forced Displacement and Racialization: The Colombian Experience

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dc.contributor.advisorBasu, Ranu
dc.contributor.authorGutierrez Castano, Julian
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-28T21:12:54Z
dc.date.available2023-03-28T21:12:54Z
dc.date.copyright2022-08-22
dc.date.issued2023-03-28
dc.date.updated2023-03-28T21:12:53Z
dc.degree.disciplineGeography
dc.degree.levelDoctoral
dc.degree.namePhD - Doctor of Philosophy
dc.description.abstractThis thesis compares the differential processes of racialization from a Colombian perspective experienced by three groups of displaced migrants in the global North and South. First, internally displaced persons (IDPs) who have been forced to move to the Coffee Region in Colombia after leaving their homes in rural regions between 2000 and 2015. Second, Colombian refugees who had similarly sought asylum in Toronto, Canada, and who migrated between 1997 and 2004. Third, Venezuelan migrants who arrived in the Coffee Region in Colombia between 2014 and 2018 due to the deteriorating living conditions and crisis in Venezuela. This research contributes to further theoretical debates on critical geographies of race, postcolonial geography, and urban geography in relation to forced migration. The objective of this research is to question understandings of race and racism, particularly how space and mobility affect the dynamics of racialization through such diverse experiences of forced displacement. The main argument of this research is that the process of forced displacement (as experienced by the Colombian IDPs and Venezuelan migrants to the Coffee Region in Colombia, and for the Colombian refugees to Toronto), results in spatialities of racialization. While escaping violence and economic hardship, forced migrants are subjected to oppressive and exclusionary processes that make them vulnerable to systemic racism and microaggressions. This comparative research uses a combination of qualitative methodologies, including in-depth semi-structured interviews, participant observation, field diary, and policy and document reviews. The research reveals that despite different experiences of internal displacement or transnational migration, spatial processes of racialization present similar dynamics of white supremacy as the dominant racial ideology.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/40954
dc.languageen
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dc.subjectGeography
dc.subjectLatin American studies
dc.subjectEthnic studies
dc.subject.keywordsRacialization
dc.subject.keywordsRacism
dc.subject.keywordsRacial ideology
dc.subject.keywordsWhite supremacy
dc.subject.keywordsMestizaje
dc.subject.keywordsTropicality
dc.subject.keywordsColombian social and armed conflict
dc.subject.keywordsForced displacement
dc.subject.keywordsRefugees and internally displaced persons.
dc.titleForced Displacement and Racialization: The Colombian Experience
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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